Start rollup jobs APIedit

Starts an existing, stopped rollup job.

This functionality is in technical preview and may be changed or removed in a future release. Elastic will apply best effort to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features.

For version 8.5 and above we recommend downsampling over rollups as a way to reduce your storage costs for time series data.

Requestedit

POST _rollup/job/<job_id>/_start

Prerequisitesedit

  • If the Elasticsearch security features are enabled, you must have manage or manage_rollup cluster privileges to use this API. For more information, see Security privileges.

Descriptionedit

If you try to start a job that does not exist, an exception occurs. If you try to start a job that is already started, nothing happens.

Path parametersedit

<job_id>
(Required, string) Identifier for the rollup job.

Response codesedit

404 (Missing resources)
This code indicates that there are no resources that match the request. It occurs if you try to start a job that doesn’t exist.

Examplesedit

If we have already created a rollup job named sensor, it can be started with:

POST _rollup/job/sensor/_start

Which will return the response:

{
  "started": true
}